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Answer all questions in the form of a song title.

1. The Rob Base Postulate

Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go right, and that the exact equal number (y) is necessary to make it out of sight (x = y), what is the minimum whole number required to achieve both outcomes?

2. Three Dog Night’s Loneliness Proof

Let L = loneliness, and let X = maximum L, which is bad.

If, theoretically, another number (2) can be as bad as X , and there are no whole numbers since X that are more L, complete the statement: “X = ___”

3. Paul Simon’s Missing Elements Theorem

Let N = the number of ways to leave your lover.

Four examples of N are given:

England is a constructed space — and the English countryside in particular is an ideologically constructed space. Right-wing concepts of the English countryside, informed by historical, cultural, ethnic, and class-based accounts, offer exclusionary representations of England. This is nothing new. The sense of a ‘timeless and forever England’ has often been invoked and weaponised by […]

Citizens of Myanmar describe what daily life is like in their isolated, war-torn nation

- by Aeon Video

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Your breath is a powerful tool for managing your emotions – a psychiatrist explains the science and three proven techniques

- Video by Dr Tracey Marks

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“I shouldn’t have lost my fingers,” one detainee said of ICE guards’ failure to get him the care a doctor prescribed.

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As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?

- by Ville Lähde

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As a hospital chaplain, I watched lives end, faiths fracture and certainties crumble. My job was holding hands in the dark

- by Nettie Reynolds

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Beware the hungry grass. In more superstitious times, Irish people would attribute sudden sharp attacks of hunger to walking on féar gorta, ground cursed by the restless ghost of a famine victim concealed beneath. The Irish for ‘hungry grass’ differs by just a fada — an accent — from  fear gorta, ‘hungry man’. We don’t […]

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York has horrified the whole US political establishment, giving hope to everyone desperate for an alternative.

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Maurice Mitchell and Amanda Litman discuss the lessons from Tuesday night, as Democrats and progressives prepare for the midterm elections.

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“I’m skeptical. The odds are that Mamdani’s victory is actually less significant than you think.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times

I was as surprised as anyone about the election results. The polls were a little too unified, so obviously, I assumed it was a conspiracy. But I now have to accept reality. He will be our next mayor. But before we jump to any conclusions about what this means for the future of the party, let’s remember: He was up against a deeply flawed candidate.

His opponent was universally despised. And that’s our bad. But how could we have known that voters were tired of old sexual predators? Still, with the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that we should have run a more pleasant and authentic candidate. Or at least, someone we could make authentic with enough media training.